From Critical Theory to Critical Political Theology

Rudolf J. Siebert

ISBN 10: 0820425710 / ISBN 13: 9780820425719

Editore: Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, 2002

pp. xii + 484 2nd Revised Edition. Codice articolo 2654519672

Riassunto:

At present, in European and American civil society a new paradigm of doing not only psychology, sociology and philosophy, but also comparative religiology and theology is emerging: it is called communicative rationality and action. A new communicative theology and religiology are also arising. Their central theme is the theodicy problem. The present study approaches this theme in the framework of a critical political theology and comparative religiology in a narrative and discursive fashion. In search for a solution to the theodicy problem, we explore with the help of the critical theory from Max Horkheimer through Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno to Jurgen Habermas, and with the assistance of the new political theology from Johann B. Metz through Helmut Peukert to Edmund Arens, the psychological, sociological, philosophical and theological constellation of universal freedom, reconciliation, and non-possessive love and solidarity out of personal autonomy and sovereignty.

Informazioni sull'autore: Rudolf J. Siebert is professor of religion and society and director of the Center for Humanistic Future Studies at Western Michigan University.

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Titolo: From Critical Theory to Critical Political ...
Casa editrice: Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New
Edizione: seconda edizione